Wacko About Jacko (C4)

Drugland (BBC2)

YOU don't have to be mad to be a fan of Michael Jackson but it helps, judging from Wacko About Jacko.

The line between being a fan and a stalker is a fine one. While the Jackson fans featured in the documentary seemed harmless enough, I worried where their adoration of the performer would end.

They're prepared to sacrifice normal life to follow him around the world, splashing out £1,000 to see him arrive at the courtroom for his trial. This is taking being a fan too far.

Twenty-year-old Danny has been a Jackson fan since he was six, when he began copying his moves. "My parents brought me up good but I am who I am today because of Michael," he declared.

His mother Sue described Danny and other obsessed fans as like a cult following. "They literally worship him," she said.

Danny works for a pizza chain to fund trips to the US and has been to Jackson's Neverland home three times. He proudly showed twigs taken from one of the trees at the ranch.

To the fans, it's unthinkable that Jackson is guilty of the charges he's currently facing in the American court. They blame the press for the situation. Anika, a 20-year-old law student, was "very angry at what's going on" and organised a concert celebrating her idol.

This led to the Billie Jean incident. Danny claimed the right to perform Jackson's song, so did Navi, a professional Jacko impersonator for 16 years. As he couldn't perform the song he wanted, he dropped out of the show.

Navi takes his work seriously, having had his cheeks and jaws enhanced as an investment. Emmanuelle also takes fan worship to extremes. Over the past ten years he's had eight operations, costing £32,000, to make himself look like Jackson and has permanent make-up tattooed on his eyes, brows and lips.

Michael Jackson is their drug of choice. Drugland (BBC1) suggested others. The first of this three-part series focused on London's drug scene and, in doing so, provided handy tips on where to get drugs and how to make lots of money selling them.

We met people - not exactly met, as their identities were disguised - including The Ticketmaster, who earns £1,000 a week as a full-time dealer in cocaine and marijuana, and Montana, a dial-a-gram cocaine dealer on £1,500 a week.

If you can't afford them, we learnt that a lot of drugs bought over the counter can be crushed up and, if you believe you're taking cocaine, have the same effect.

The programme made me dizzy with facts and figures - illegal drugs are used by over 5m people in the UK; there are at least 20,000 dealers in London alone; one in five people regularly use recreational drugs; and 12,000 people were found guilty of drug-dealing in the UK last year.

The police were conspicuous by their absence, but former addicts were on hand to spell out the dangers. On reflection, saying that doing coke makes you feel on top of the world as well as confident, attractive and charismatic wasn't much of a deterrent.

All in all, given the earning potential of dealers, selling rather than taking drugs seemed a much better proposition.